The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-07-22
SOUTHERN GLEANINGs.

| Iege at Au Durn, Ala, which was burned
June "a with a total loss of $500, 600; in
surance, $40, 900, is TO be rebuilt at once.
The Daily States, of New Orleans, sug
gests that a popular fund be started ''for
| a monument to Admiral Raphael
5emmes, the commander of the Confed-
crate cruiser Ala bama."
Since the outbreak Of yellow fever at
Key West there have been to present
writing eighty-three cases of the disease,
twentY-sevenoof which resulted fatally.
Thirty-three cases were under treatment.
Reporting yellow fever at Key West to
be only an emphatic type of bilious fever
| seems to have made 10 difference with the
| fatal results of the disease
By premature explosion Of giant pow
| der, while blasting rock on the Carolina
railroad near Catawba river, s. c., a few
| days ago, one white man and eight ne
| groes were instantly killed.
| Uncle Rollen A. Tolbert celebrated his
| eighty eighth birthday recently by a big
| dinner at the 'eTolbert House" " in Gold
| village. Ga. His youngest brother, Rich
| ard Tolbert, aged seventy-tWo, and his
/ baby boy, Thomas, aged fifty-tWo, and his
youngest grandson, aged nineteen, were
all present, and few intimate friends.
/ Uncle Roll, as he is Familiarity called, is
IN goood health, and still sticks to the old
maxim: early to bed and early TO rise,"
| etc.
! The death of ex-Lieutenant Governor
L. J. Robinson, of North Carolina, is an
nounced.
An epidemic Of fux is prevailing in sew
eral Virginia counties, with a shocking
| mortality, mainly among children.
! Managers of Southern railroads look
for a heavy fall and winter traffic. The
crops of Alabama, Georgia and South
| Carolina are in better condition than they
| have been for ten years.
nv ~
ern colleges with the custom of turning
out to many dyspeptic geniuses. Gym
| nastics, it saws, should be introduced IN
| tO,the curriculum.
The work of building the railway be-
tween Dublin and Savannah, Ga, is 60
ing on rapidly. Six hundred men are
employed on the work, which is progress
ing at the rate of one mile day
Alligator hunting seems to be fine sport
in Florida. A Jacksonville paper re-
marks: ga party of alligator hunters re-
| turned last week from Lake Hancock
| with 162 hides and three pecks of teeth"
William Sykes, near Leota Landing,
| Miss, was trying, few days ago, to i'm
| pale minnow on his fishing hook, when
it wriggled from his fingers and slipped
into his mouth and down his throat.
After a hard struggle Rome, Ga, has
| succeeded in gaining victory for Prohi-
bition, the majority being 500
At a fire in the Methodist Church at
/ Bowling Green, KY, a few nights ago, a
fireman named Williams was killed by a
! big beam falling on his head. The church
/ was destroyed, but the loss is small
Adolph Fauche, Esq, of New Orleans,
died a few days since at Clarksville g,
/ Tenn, where he and two daughters were
spending the summer. The wife Of the
deceased died suddenly at Clarksville
several weeks ago.
J. d. Peet q Co., leading cotton brokers
of New Orleans, have suspended, owing
to failure to receive reimbursements of
margins. A member of the firm said that
/ the assets largely exceed the liabilities,
and that resumption is question Of but
a fe wv days.
At st Augustine, Fla, the work of the
/ restoration of the old cathedral will be
started Immediately; the cost Of the work
will reach at least $4,000 The quaint
Moorish belfry will remain as it is, but
the bells will not be used. A new steeple
and belfry will be erected, costing IS COO.
The trustees of the University of Ten
nessee have elected Prof. g. S. Davis, of
Colorado State University, Professor of
Agriculture and Prof. J. L. Newman, Of
TIE Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical
College, Professor of Natural History.
Prof Massie has resigned the chair OF
English and modern languages.
By the breakinR Of a scaffolding upon
which they were working upon the cell
ing of the House of Representatives in
the South Carolina state-house, a few
days ago, four colored wOrkmen were
thrown to the floor, a distance of thirty
feet. George Caldwell died from his in
juries in ten minutes Cyrus Jackson,
Sam Cunningham and William Oliver
were all terribly bruised. Jackson was
not expected to live.
R. B. Chatham, Independent and Re
publican candidate for the Mississippi
Legislature, few days since shot and
killed John s. Harkins, Jr., associate
editor of the Lexington B1EL' 'eti7l. Harkins
for the Legislature. Chatham and young
Harkins hal been discussing politics and
drinking beer during the day up Il
the time the dispute arose.
The Mississippi Valley Medical Associ
alton met q few days since at Graf
Orchard Springs, KY, in its thirteen tn
annual session. There was full attend
ance.
In the Circuit Court at Jackson, Miss.
J. &. Brown, an ex-saloon keeper, re
Gently plead guilty to the three charges
against him for violating the local option
law. For the first offense he was fined
IS and ten days in the county Jail; for the
second, 800 and four months imprison.
ment, and for the third, $500 and six
months imprisonment This is the first
conviction under the local option law in
the county, and shows that offenders need
not expect much mercy.
L. McPhail, of Cincinnati, was found
dead near the town bridge at Bard stown,
XIV. a few DAYS ago. Circumstances in
dicated that he was assaulted with knife
and club, and his body dragged to where
found. When last seea alive he was in
company with Naaman Hoops, of New
London, o. The latter has been arrested
John c. Westerfeld left Owens boro,
KY, a few nights ago to visit his siste r
who lives ten miles in the country. He
was found at midnight ten miles out on
another road, in an fnsensi BILE condition.
He had been waylaid and Knocked from
his horse by unknown parties and left for
dead His lower aw was crushed to
splinters, and he was kicked and beaten
about the body in such a manner that his
death was inevitable. He has wife and
four children.
The 'Quakes are not done yet.
Ruth Fleming. her brother and Joshua
Peoples, all colored, residing in Nash
Vile, Tenn, were poisoned a few days
since by drinking coffee made of water
into which an unknown enemy had
placed a large quantity of arsenic. All
were rendered critically i'll, but prompt
medical aid placed them beyond danger.
Diris, a paper pu blished at Atlanta,
Ga, gives an interesting account of b ow
three men with a capital of $500 five
years ago started in to make step lad
ders. They worked hard and were
laughed at for two years; then they got
an order for 5000 step ladders. Now
they turn out 10000 step ladders month.
Louisville, KY, is figuring on free
park system
At MiIled geville, Ca, few days ago
Mr.. Arthur Butts and Mrs. Hutchins, o,
that place, were married. The gay groom
Is eighty years Of age, while the blushing
bride is put down at sixty-hve. Some
young ladies' expressed the belief thai